Abstract: Method for colouring hair comprising pretreating the hair with at least one primer composition before treating the hair with a polymeric hair colouring system.

Abstract: A beauty care product comprising a sealable plastic container, a sealing means and a beauty care component is provided, wherein the container of which is resistant to random, uncontrolled deformation under a substantial pressure differential between the environment and inside the container, yet having an affordable cost of manufacture and/or being appealing to the consumer. A kit comprising said product thereof, a method of manufacturing said product, and a method of using said product for application onto skin and/or hair are also provided.

Abstract: A composition and method for treatment of brittle, broken, cracked or otherwise damaged nail and hoof plates. The composition is an aqueous-organic medium containing a non-covalent complex of a diamine and an organic acid or an aqueous-organic medium with a diamine alone.

Abstract: Photopolymerizable topcoat and color coat gel compositions suitable for forming a photopolymerized nail coating are described. Both gel compositions include a mixture of one or more pre-formed polymers, a (meth)acrylic monomer, a multi-(meth)acrylate crosslinker, a UV photoinitiator and an antioxidant. The color coat gel composition includes pigments, a smectite clay and silica.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a permanent shaping composition for the permanent deformation of hair comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier, at least one reducing agent comprising a mercapto functional group, at least one alkalizing agent, and a malodor suppressant system comprising at least a first malodor suppressant, herein the first malodor suppressant has a molecular weight of from 100 to 400 g/mol, and wherein the malodor suppressant system has a distribution coefficient log P (octanol/water) of 2 or more.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hair colouring and/or bleaching composition comprising at least a first aqueous component (i) and a second aqueous component (ii) being mixed prior to application onto hair, wherein the first aqueous component (i) comprises, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier one or more oxidizing agent(s), and the second aqueous component (ii) comprises, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier, one or more alkalizing agent(s) selected from the group consisting of ammonia, its salts and mixtures thereof wherein the first component (i) or the second component (ii) or both comprise at least a first and a second malodor suppressant and optionally one or more further malodor suppressants, or the first component (i) comprises at least a first malodor suppressant and the second component (ii) comprises at least a second malodor suppressant, the first and the second malodor suppressant and any further malodor suppressant forming a malodor suppressant system in the hair colouring and/or bleaching com

Abstract: The invention relates to a hair colouring and/or bleaching composition comprising at least a first aqueous component (i) and a second aqueous component (ii) being mixed prior to application onto hair, wherein the first component (i) or the second component (ii) or both components (i) and (ii) comprise a gel-network system consisting of multi-lamellar sheets and vesicles with d-spacing (interlayer spacing between sheets) between 5 nm and 50 nm, preferably 10 nm to 30 nm, more preferred 15 nm to 25 nm as measured by Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS), and the first component (i) or the second component (ii) or both comprise at least a first malodor suppressant being a compound having a distribution coefficient log P of 2 or more and a molecular weight of between 100 and 400, a method for coloring or bleaching hair, a kit comprising the above components and the use of the described hair coloring composition for colouring and/or bleaching hair with a reduced or eliminated ammonia odour.

Abstract: Composition for lightening keratin fibers, comprising: at least 20% weight of fatty substances free of carboxylic acid groups relative to the total weight of the composition, at least one alkalizing agent, at least one surfactant, and at least one oxidizing agent, wherein the concentration of oxidizing agent in the composition is from 1.5% to 2.5% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition.

Abstract: Method for treating hair comprising the successive application onto hair of polymeric layers which can be removed to a large extent or even totally in an easy manner upon request of the user by using a cationic surfactant.

Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition suitable for forming a polymerized base coat of a substantially uniform mixture of nitrocellulose and crosslinked (meth)acrylate polymer is disclosed. The composition comprises an ethyl acetate solution including multiple (meth)acrylate monomers, nitrocellulose, a rapid release copolymer of alkyl acrylate monomers, a chain extended di-(hydroxyethylmethacryloyl) trimethylhexyl dicarbamate oligomer of weight average molecular weight of 10 to 20 kDa, one or more plasticizers and a photoinitiator.

Abstract: A hair-dyeing composition with an effect of minimizing hair damage and scalp irritation caused by ammonia prescription and ammonia odor, which is capable of decreasing ammonia odor peculiar to a hair-dyeing composition and also of supplementing the hair with amino acids similar to hair proteins to decrease hair damage, especially hair roughness and hair shortening, for healthy dyeing and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: An agent for dyeing keratin fibers comprises a composition A comprising at least one alkalizing agent, at least one oxidative dye precursor, at least one surfactant and at least one fatty substance free of carboxylic acid groups and a composition B comprising at least one oxidizing agent and at least one surfactant. The concentration of fatty substances free of carboxylic acid groups after mixing composition A and composition B is at least 20% by weight relative to the total weight of the mixed composition A and B. The concentration of alkalizing agent after mixing composition A and composition B is not more than 1.75% by weight relative to the total weight of the mixed composition A and B.

Abstract: A composition for providing a film on keratin fibres, the composition comprising: a film-forming aminosilicone polymer; a silicone resin; an ether of a water-soluble polyhydric alcohol; a thickening system comprising a deposition enhancer and a thickening polymer; one or more coloured materials or one or more pigments; water; 2-phenoxyethanol and/or phenylmethanol; wherein the composition is substantially free of esters of parahydroxybenzoic acid; and wherein the composition is substantially free of isothiazolinone compounds. Also, associated methods, kits and uses.

Abstract: A novel class of 3-halo-1H-indol-4-amine derivatives, particularly for dyeing keratin fibers, the azomethine dyes formed from them, their uses as a coupler for dyeing keratin fibers, hair dyeing compositions comprising them, method of dyeing hair thereof, and a hair dyeing kit thereof are disclosed. The products of the oxidative coupling with hair dye primary intermediates, particularly pyrazole derivative, a p-phenylenediamine derivative, a p-aminophenol derivative, have improved fastness properties over currently used violet-blue to blue azomethine dyes.

Abstract: A hair treatment composition, particularly a hair colouring and/or bleaching composition, comprising an oxidizing agent, an alkalizing agent selected from the group consisting of ammonia, its salts and mixtures thereof, one or more fatty alcohol(s), one or more non-ionic surfactant(s) and a specific fatty compound. It is also provided a kit, method and use thereof. Superior hair treatment performance, particularly superior colouring and bleaching performance, with a reduced or an eliminated smell of said alkalizing agent upon application, is achieved.

Abstract: A method for treating hair comprising applying primer(s) and cationic polymer(s) onto a user's hair for improving the styling of the hair in a more manageable and reliable manner and for enhancing the stability of the final style obtained.

Abstract: Method for treating hair comprising the successive application onto hair of polymeric layers which can be removed to a large extent or even totally in an easy manner upon request of the user by using a composition having a pH less than 7.